Boho eclectic Living room/Entry Way Progress - ORC Week4

Welcome back to week4 of One Room Challenge.

This weekend was very eventful with me completing another half marathon.

Lot of good things happened this week.
- I was able to fix the sofa dilemma.
- Ordered a pair of chairs to replace the love seat.
- Lamp shade has been recovered
- Nesting Tables are ready.

I m still on the fence with grasscloth wallpaper. I received the wall paper yesterday. Most of the people on net suggests to smoothen the wall and prime it before applying the wallpaper. Hopefully I will find someone to install it for little cheaper.

Here is the Lampshade

 On the Lamp

 Nesting tables. Best part about this blue and gold dipped nesting table is that I can change the fabric per my taste as and when I want

I am swooning over the gold dipped legs

Aren't they colorful, vibrant and pretty?

One more shot before I leave

I am off to check what 200+ other bloggers have accomplished this week.

Thanks for stopping by.

Boho Eclectic Living Room One Room challenge Week3 - Progress

Welcome back to third week of One Room challenge.

We are past halfway mark. There hasn't been significant change in the way room looks but I do have few updates.

Let me start with good parts first

- Fabric for the lampshades arrived. Here is the sneak peak of the lampshade. I haven't covered it yet, this was just to see how it looks.

- Pillow covers will be mix of few DIYs and few store brought. Most of my online shopped pillow covers are here and I am loving what I see.
 

 - Dresser will have kalamkari (Printing technique famous in southernpart of India)  runner. I was able to get the fabric for the same too. Here is the fabric I have got for this makeover
 

- My nesting table is all set for some serious spray painting this week

- I was able to score the pretty curtains from home goods and I cant wait to put them on the wall.

- Gallery wall is 75% complete and need to work on couple more

- Coffee table is going to get a face uplift and the add on is on the way.


Now on to not so good parts :

I am still on the lookout for the side table with storage. There are two major setbacks tough :(

Grass cloth wallpaper

I have been dreaming about the grasscloth wallpaper in the entry way. Since its the first room as soon as you enter our home and I didn't want it to look all DIYed, so have been looking around for professional installer. My dreams were shattered by the price he quoted. Installation and prep work will cost me good 2k, which I am not  currently ready to spend. So, DIY it is.

I looked at various options, since our walls are textured, most of the options says prep the wall. I am worried about what happens when we decide to take them down. If the wall will end up damaged. To be honest, I am little worked up at the moment

Seating

Since this room gets very use, Hubs isnt ready on spending moolah on this room. So new sofa  is not happening. That means I have to come up with option B which is to upholster this beast. If I complete
everything on my list by this weekend, I might give this a try.

You can catch up earlier weeks posts here, week1, week2

I have so much to complete this weekend along with a half marathon on Sunday.

Thank you for stopping by

Boho eclectic Living room/Entry Way - ORC Week2

Week 2 of One Room challenege is here and I am little too late to the party this week. This is the week where most of the designing and planning happens. While I am still struggling to decide on the couch and side tables, I was able to order few things.

Here is the grand plan for this Global Boho/electic Entry Way/Living Room.

1.  Grasscloth Wallpaper -> I have been drooling over Grasscloth Wallpapered rooms lately. So decided to take the plung and ordered the wallpaper. Time to get to other tasks in the list as the wallpaper is expected in last week of April.
2. Curtain Panels -> Still Searching
3. Replace Side tables -> Got one, debating on the other as I need some storage too
4. Bring in more plants
5. Collage for the wall between two windows -> WIP
6. This rooms flows into the stairs and also the dining room. need to figure out how to devide both the spaces. Some sort of dividers may be.
7. Redo Coffee Table
8. Chairs instead of love seat (??)
9. replace sofa (??)
10. Spray Paint Ginger Jar Lamps
11. Lamp Shades
12. Bring in more colorful pillows (If 8 and 9 doesnt happen upholster the existing sofa and ditch the pillows)

Coffee table, Indian inlay stenciled cornices, Two toned Dresser, Elephant plant stand and Corner stand stays.

Here are few of my inspirations:

Love the collage in this beautiful setting (Please pin from source)

Source : Pinterest

                                                               source : pinterest

Absolutely in love with the grass cloth, blue, white and rust color scheme in this room

Source : Pinterest

Source : Pinterest

Northern california is going thru extended spring showers. I couldnt do any thing this weekend either. Will have to squeeze in everything in next 3 weeks, Hopefully I will be able to pull it off.

Thanks,

Entry Way/Living Room Makeover - ORC Week1

Hi Friends,

Woo hoo, I am taking the plunge again and diving deep into One Room Challenge Hosted by Linda of callingithome  I had a whale of time last time during last Spring while transforming our dining room. This time Entry Way/Living Room is the lucky room to go thru transformation in 6 weeks.

For those who dont know, One Room Challenge  is bi-annual blogging event where designers transform the chosen room in 6 weeks time. There are two categories. One for selected few designers who publish their progress on wednesdays and other is for the guest participants where hundreds of designers/bloggers take you thru their progress on Thursdays.

Here is our Entry Way in its current glory.

View from main door.

View from the stairs

View from the Seating

Seating area

This Sofa needs to go. We have had this for almost 10 years and I absolutely hate the sea of pillows. Howmuch ever I try, I can never make it look beautiful or organized. I hope Hubby is listening.

5th Wall

These side tables needs to be replaced with something better and with the storage option. If not both, atleast one would be better with storage option.

Pretty much everything else stays or may come back transformed.

Cant wait to come up with the plan to transform this room :)

Thanks for joining me in this adventure.